FIN 110: Personal Finance
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Successful completion of mathematics basic skills competency requirement.
Basics of personal and household finance. Saving, debt reduction, home and automobile financing, retirement planning, investment, and insurance.
FIN 314: Corporation Finance
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ECO 202, BUS 312, and CIS 101 or equivalent.
Introduction to analytical techniques and terminology of corporate financial management. Includes the financial environment, yield-curve analysis, ratio analysis, the DuPont system, proforma balance sheets and income statements, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the intrinsic value of stocks and bonds, the time value of money, capital budgeting, and working capital
Recent Instructors: Drs Yung Mo Kim, Ted Byrley and Ted Schmidt
Semesters Offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
FIN 345: Estate Planning
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status.
Provides financial security during retirement years and facilitates the intended and orderly disposition of property upon disability or death. Addresses concepts and techniques of lifetime financial planning that may lead to increases in one’s estate and the conservation of existing assets. Includes a critical evaluation of traditional planning techniques and analysis of major advanced methods, including various living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, and family-
limited partnerships.
Recent Instructors: Dr. Yung-Mo Kim
Semesters Offered: Alternate years
FIN 370: Technical Analysis of Financial Markets
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ECO 202.
Study of the market action of financial products such as securities, bonds, futures, and derivatives through the use of charts and figures. Effects of business, economic, and social “realities” and perceptions on price in financial markets. Market models and theory and the practices and instruments of market players. Technical analysis as a forecasting tool of both market and economic trends in various time frames.
FIN 400: International Finance
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ECO 201, ECO 202, and FIN 314; ECO 308 recommended.
Basic theories in international finance and applications, including analysis of exchange-rate markets, international capital markets, multinational capital budgeting, cash management, and international banking. Provides a strong background in international financial markets and international financial policy.
ECO 414 Investment Management
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: FIN 314.
Operating and efficiency characteristics of security markets. The application of institutional, technical, and theoretical approaches to security analysis and evaluation of investment portfolios.
Recent Instructors: Drs Ted Byrley and Fred Floss
Semesters Offered: Fall semester
ECO 415 Cases in Corporate Finance
Prerequisite: FIN 314; FIN 307 recommended.
Application of the case approach to problems in business finance. Includes working capital financing, term borrowing, capital budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions.
Recent Instructors: Dr Ted Byrley
Semesters Offered: Based on Staff Availability
ECO 416 Advanced Corporation Finance
Prerequisite: FIN 307 and FIN 314.
Advanced study of the practice and theory of corporation finance, focusing on topics not covered in introductory corporation finance. Includes advanced debt policy, options, leasing, mergers, international financial
management, and pension plans.
Recent Instructors: Dr Ted Byrley, Ted Schmidt
Semesters Offered: Alternate Spring semesters
ECO 417 Derivative Securities
Prerequisite: FIN 314.
The investigation of how modern securities are created from their basic components. Some examples include circus swaps, artificial Treasury bills, artificial cash, synthetic puts, and portfolio insurance products.
Recent Instructors: Dr Theodore Byrley
Semesters Offered: Alternate Spring semesters
ECO 418 Bond Markets
Prerequisite: FIN 314.
Introduction to bond management. Includes bond pricing, yield measurements, return measurements, duration, convexity, Treasury securities, agency securities, corporate debt, municipal bonds, the term structure of interest rates, mortgage loans, pass-through securities, CMOs, return characteristics of derivative products, and bond hedging using options and futures.
Recent Instructors: Dr Ted Byrley
Semesters Offered: Alternate Fall Semesters